Region IX

Details: Category: Region 9; Published: 24 June 2016

NNC9 42ndAnniv The National Nutrition Council (NNC) Regional Office IX together with the other regional offices joined the week-long 42nd NNC Anniversary celebration on June 20-24, 2016 highlighting 42 years of quality nutrition service. The activity was held at the NNC Central Office where over a hundred seventy NNC staff actively participated in activities that fostered camaraderie, meeting new and renewing acquaintances. Activities lined up for this occasion aimed to enrich further the quality service of the agency with seminars on Understanding Records and Documents Management responding to the needs of the NNC Central and Regional Offices to sustain ISO certification; a Values Orientation at the Workplace by a renowned motivational speaker, Mr. Francis J. Kong and a seminar on Integrity Management Program for improved organizational productivity with Atty. Froilan Montalban, Jr of the Office of the President – Office of the Deputy Executive Secretary for Legal Affairs.

Details: Category: Region 9; Published: 17 May 2016

region 9 bns training Twenty one Barangay Nutrition Scholars (BNS) in Zamboanga Del Norte were trained on the basic course for Barangay Nutrition Scholars on April 20-22, 2016 at Dapitan City. The training was sponsored and funded by the Child Fund International (CFI) a non-government organization that expanded its services to the municipalities of Gulatac and Leon B. Postigo, Zamboanga del Norte through the “Child Rights and Education Access Towards Early Childhood Development” CREATE-CD Project.

According to its Project Coordinator Mr. Denis Vanguardia, CREATE-CD is part of CFI’s community level interventions which also addresses problems of malnutrition. The collaboration between the CFI & NNC IX in the BNS training capacitated the indigenous nutrition workers in the performance of their volunteer work. He added that this intervention will also lead to improved nutrition program management at the barangay level. NNC IX provided technical, material and human resources in training the 21 newly deployed and existing Barangay Nutrition Scholars in the two municipalities.

Details: Category: Region 9; Published: 18 February 2016

Reg. 9 Goiter 29 January 2016 Dapitan City, the Department of Health led the celebration of the National Goiter Awareness Week (GAW) bannering the theme “Goiter sugpuin, isip patalinuhin, Iodized Salt gamitin!”An annual national event, the GAW focuses on information dissemination and prevention of goiter and other iodine deficiency disorders that may result to mental and physical retardation in children as early as the child is in the womb.

Conducting a national event for the Goiter Awareness Week in Dapitan City gave a focus attention to the seriousness of IDD problem in the region, as in the 8^thNational Nutrition Survey in 2013 among school aged children, 41% of this age group in Zamboanga Peninsula was found to have mild Iodine Deficiency Disorders, with a median UIE µg/L at 68 marking the region as the only one in the country with IDD.

Led by the DOH 9 Regional Director Dr. Ruby Constantino and Dr. Carmela Granada GAW coordinator of DOH representing Assistant Secretary of Health Dr. Gerardo V. Bayugo, the event’s program was highlighted by the discussion of Dr. Teofilo O. L. San Luis Jr.,the Executive Director of Global Iodine Network on the IDD problem in Zamboanga Peninsula and the support and commitment of the Local Chief Executives, Mayor Rosalina Jalosjos of Dapitan City and the ZDN Governor Roberto Uy to strengthen and closely monitor the implementation of the RA 8172. Other stakeholders who participated in the day-long event were officers of the National Nutrition Council, the members of the Regional Bantay Asin Task Force, the regional and provincial health personnel and Municipal Nutrition Action Officers among others.

Details: Category: Region 9; Published: 28 March 2016

reg. 9 women Carrying this year’s theme “Kapakanan ni Juana, Isama sa Agenda” (El buen estar di Juana, Pone na Agenda) Zamboanga City launched the 2016 National Women’s Month celebration with a “Marcha de las Mujeres” (Parade for Women) on the first day of March 2016. Together with other national government agencies, universities and state colleges, hospitals and private institutions, the National Nutrition Council Regional Office IX participated in the parade to celebrate Women’s Month and to support women’s welfare in the government’s policies and programs.

Details: Category: Region 9; Published: 01 February 2016

Reg. 9 Steel a Stunting is a chronic or long term malnutrition that affects children early in life indicated by their height that is short for their age. Being “Pandak” or “Potot” is commonly accepted in many families as normal size for Filipinos, but could actually be an outcome of chronic poor health and nutrition in the early childhood of the individual that impair both physical and mental development permanently. Stunting is a global problem affecting 161 million under five year old children and an estimated 3.4 million of which are in the Philippines. Among the regions, Zamboanga Peninsula accounts for 38.7% of the country’s 30% stunted children.

Reducing the prevalence of stunting in the country requires investments on nutrition for appropriate and adequate interventions and involves monitoring of height with appropriate measuring tool to generate quality data which is among the issues that need to be addressed. The National Nutrition Council allocated funds for stainless Steel Rulers to be given to areas based on priority provinces, 4^th 5^th and 6^th class municipalities, areas with poor OPT coverage CY 2013 and Early Warning System expansion areas in 2014 by the National Nutrition Council.

Details: Category: Region 9; Published: 04 March 2016

Reg. 9 NAOs 18 February 2016 the National Nutrition Council Regional Office 9 headed by Nutrition Program Coordinator Maria del Pilar Pamela R. Tarroza held the first semester Regional Meeting of the Nutrition Action Officers (NAOs) in Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay. The meeting served as venue for the NAOs to have a look at the nutrition situation of children through a review of the 2015 OPT results; discuss the accomplishments of the past year; be briefed on the Scaling-Up Nutrition in the Philippines and be informed of the directions and nutrition interventions to prioritize in order to contribute in achieving development goals for children.